As spark is in voting stages for v4.0, we can begin anticipating changes that may be required to the cassandra connector, and implementing them.

The goal of this story is that users can upgrade to the spark cassandra connector with a version at the same level as spark, with the same core dependency versions shortly after the spark 4.0 is published.

Whilst development work can be completed before, finalisation and publishing will depend on spark voting of RC’s to be closed.

I haven’t personally had a huge opportunity to understand the changes yet, any help in identifying major API changes from the community will most certainly be useful to the final community member who is assigned.